retard is a legitimate term for foolishness and from there on i will continue to say retard the status quo of ethics on this term are legitimate because people use it casually and thus it is only the people who are opposing the fact that is is hate speech deems it necessary to bring in what you said earlier nigger is a racist term spic is a racist term chink is a racist term these are towards people of one ethnology retard has multiple definitions those words have only one meaning and it is used for hate speech retard is not hate speech whether you like it or not